Name: 11 Largest Creatures Ever Existed on Earth
Uploaded: 2020-03-14T07:41:54.000Z
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[Ring announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Champions Arena, where two teams will

compete for the title of the biggest creature on the planet.

In the blue corner are the oldest inhabitants of our planet - dinosaurs, in the red corner

[Play by Play guy] The first round begins with a duel between two herbivorous creatures.

The largest land animal of our time enters the ring - the African elephant!

It weighs more than the anchor of a cruise ship and is 5 times heavier than the tallest

But still the elephant loses a lot to Argentinosaurus - the largest herbivorous dinosaur in the

With a length of over 121 feet and tipping the scales at 90 tons, this giant will cover

just over half of the baseball field and weighs like 3 subway cars.

The largest modern land predator is the polar bear.

It is believed that on Earth, the polar bear has no enemies among animals.

And it figures: the largest recorded weight of this animal reached 1 ton.

But even with such dimensions, the polar bear loses to Spinosaurus.

This creature is considered the largest land predator that ever existed on the planet.

Its length reached 49 feet, approximately 2 London red buses.

And it weighs 7 times more than our polar bear.

But no matter how dangerous and huge land animals are, in fact, they’re babies compared

to those creatures that live in the seas and oceans.

This is the length of a big artificial Christmas tree.

It would seem not so much, if it didn’t belong to the largest arthropod insect on

About 460 million years ago, these huge creatures resembling large space bugs inhabited shallow

waters and terrified all small marine mammals.

These predators are believed to have been distant relatives of all scorpions.

Of modern insects, no one will compete with this creature (and I'm extremely happy about

that ). Giant weta, a beetle resembling a cricket slightly smaller than a person’s

palm, won't go into a duel, knowing in advance that it has no chance against a sea scorpion.

The largest marine predator ever is considered Shastasaurus.

It lived about 235 million years ago and reached a length of 65.5 feet - it could easily cover

the entire bowling alley with itself, and it weighed 20 tons - almost like the weight

Still, this ancient dinosaur loses in size to the largest marine modern animal - the

It weighs like a herd of 50 cows, and almost three times as much as Shastasaurus, while

Modern animals still lose by a wide margin.

Now, from the depths of the ocean we are soaring into the sky.

The largest flying bird to date is an albatross.

Its wingspan is 11 feet - almost like the length of the Volkswagen Beetle.

But, unfortunately, the albatross easily loses to its distant ancestor - the bird Argentavis,

Its wingspan is almost 20 feet and... it's almost like TWO Volkswagen Beetles!

Albatross, I'm sorry, but there is no chance of victory.

It seems the living animals don't have a single chance in this championship but wait... right

now, the largest creature that ever existed on Earth appears on the ring.

Its size is comparable to a 9-story building.

And just the tongue of this creature weighs like a female African elephant!

And this is not some ancient dinosaur, but ours, a modern marine inhabitant!

The champion for the title of the largest animal on Earth is a blue whale!

But can land animals reach the same size as dinosaurs?

Is it possible that in the future, for some reason, mammals will become as large as, for

Even if creatures of such sizes suddenly appeared, then, believe me, it certainly would not destroy

I’ll explain why in a couple of minutes, but before that I’ll talk about marine giants.

Unlike land, the ocean has a much greater chance of a huge creature appearing.

There are several theories in this regard: lower temperature in the water slows down

And the slower the metabolism, the more it accumulates.

Theoretically, if any marine life is given a safe zone and an endless supply of food,

However, everyone knows about whales, but what about real sea monsters?

Almost all seafarers have been scaring each other with stories about Kraken since ancient

times, but the worst thing in these tales is that they’re absolutely true.

Around the world, since the 17th century, many Kraken sightings have been recorded.

Modern scientists have given them a more scientific name - architeuthis.

Information about these creatures is not limited to records of past centuries, though.

For example, in 2007, a 29-foot squid was caught in the Antarctic waters (about the

width of a single letter from the Hollywood inscription in California) and weighing half

a ton, which is slightly more than a zebra.

You can easily find photos of this monster on the Internet.

But even this is far from the biggest Kraken.

In the Bermuda region, at the bottom of the ocean, hide squids that prey on whales and

sperm whales – two of the largest creatures on Earth.

Kraken from the Bermuda Depths reach 164 feet!

The same length of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris!

No wonder so many ships disappear in the Bermuda Triangle!

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